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From: Binbin Wu <binbin.wu@linux.intel.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, pbonzini@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Remove duplicated calls of reverse_cpuid_check()
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 10:38:43 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46eb6fe5-0885-2537-099b-33d8bcfde1d3@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y/TpLMRiNwGt2dhY@google.com>


On 2/21/2023 11:54 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2023, Binbin Wu wrote:
>> Remove duplicated calls of reverse_cpuid_check() in __kvm_cpu_cap_mask()
>> and kvm_cpu_cap_{clear, set, get}().
> I want to keep the checks even though they are redundant.  There is no runtime
> cost, and the intent of the direct calls in the "upper" helpers is as much to
> document their usage constraints (input feature must be a compile-time constant)
> as it is to enforce correctness.

Got it.


      reply	other threads:[~2023-02-22  2:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-21  3:21 [PATCH] KVM: x86: Remove duplicated calls of reverse_cpuid_check() Binbin Wu
2023-02-21 15:54 ` Sean Christopherson
2023-02-22  2:38   ` Binbin Wu [this message]

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